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Volume 19, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 1155-3316
  • E-ISSN: 2034-6468

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This article proposes the idea of a dialogue between Christian apocrypha and early Islam. The discussion shows the role which the Qur’ān as the key text of early Islamic literature played in the transmission of Christian apocrypha in the Byzantine world. The parallel between the Qur’ānic material on Mary’s youth, conception, birth-giving, and Jesus’ childhood and the development of the “Book of Mary” at the stage where Protoevangelium of James and Infancy Gospel of Pseudo-Thomas were being joined to one another suggests that the Qur’ān functions as a witness to a formative period of a Christian apocryphal text.

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Cet article défend l’idée d’un dialogue entre les apocryphes chrétiens et l’Islam primitif. La discussion démontre le rôle qu’a joué le Coran en tant que texte clef de la littérature islamique primitive dans la transmission des apocryphes chrétiens au sein du monde byzantin. Le parallèle entre le matériau coranique sur l’enfance de Marie, la conception, la nativité et l’enfance de Jésus et le développement du “livre de Marie” à l’époque où le et l’ furent joints l’un à l’autre, suggère que le Coran fonctionne comme un témoin de la période de formation d’un texte apocryphe chrétien.

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